OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Multispecies assemblages and multiple stressors: Synthesizing the state of experimental research in freshwaters	113
Issue Information	101
Waters From the Third Pole	66
Hydrological modeling of the Silala River basin. 1. Model development and long‐term groundwater recharge assessment	60
Revisiting groundwater law through the lenses of earth system law and rights of nature	60
Beaver: The North American freshwater climate action plan	58
Reanimating the strangled rivers of Aotearoa New Zealand	57
A new flow path: eDNA connecting hydrology and biology	54
Identifying anthropogenic legacy in freshwater ecosystems	53
The geological evolution of the Silala River basin, Central Andes	51
The lead and copper rule: Limitations and lessons learned from Newark, New Jersey	51
The effects of drought on biodiversity in UK river ecosystems: Drying rivers in a wet country	42
Interdisciplinary Approaches Improve Understanding of Cryptogenic Species: A Historical Case Study of Crayfish in Montana, USA	38
Water‐IQ matters as water conflicts mount	37
Issue Information	36
Enhancing river floodplain management with nature‐based solutions: Overcoming barriers and harnessing enablers	36
Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters	34
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Scientific evidence of the hydrological impacts of nature‐based solutions at the catchment scale	33
Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams	33
Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border	31
Geophysics as a hypothesis‐testing tool for critical zone hydrogeology	29
Environmental injustice and Escherichia coli in urban streams: Potential for community‐led response	28
A Review of Social and Organizational Barriers to Water Reuse in the United States	28
Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter	28

A call for an accurate presentation of glaciers as water resources	28
The waterscape continuum concept: Rethinking boundaries in ecosystems	27
Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets	27
COVID‐19 and water demand: A review of literature and research evidence	26
Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation	26
Advancing Multiple‐Use Water Services for Development in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	26
MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era	26
Water scarcity in the fast‐growing megacity of Lagos, Nigeria and opportunities for managed aquifer recharge	25
Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines	24
Macrophytes as passive bioindicators of trace element pollution in the aquatic environment	24
Theoretical Underpinnings of Snow Interception and Canopy Snow Ablation Parameterisations	23
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The Future of Water and Democracy: Assessing and Improving Water Governance in the United States	22
The development of a hydrogeological conceptual model of groundwater and surface water flows in the Silala River Basin	22
Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin	21
Data availability and sector‐specific frameworks restrict drought impact quantification in the Intermountain West	20
Potential pollution risks of historic landfills in England: Further analysis of climate change impacts	20
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An overview of the evolving jurisdictional scope of the U.S. Clean Water Act for hydrologists	20
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Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency	19
Bridging the divide between inland water quantity and quality with satellite remote sensing: An interdisciplinary review	19
Toward a contextualized research agenda: Governance challenges of the wastewater treatment policy in Mexico and the role of subnational governments	18
Toward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use	18
Beyond landscape experience: A systematic literature review on the concept of spatial quality in flood‐risk management	18
Issue Information	18
A review of atmospheric water vapor lidar calibration methods	18
Multi‐scalar interactions between mismanaged plastic waste and urban flooding in an era of climate change and rapid urbanization	17
The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems	16
Water Reuse for Cape Town: Investing in Resilience to Avoid Another “Day Zero”	16
Wastewater surveillance could serve as a pandemic early warning system for COVID‐19 and beyond	16
A Call for a Unified Database to Address Exposure Disparities in the United States	16
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Why do we have so many different hydrological models? A review based on the case of Switzerland	15
Land Use‐Land Cover and Hydrological Modeling: A Review	15
Erratum	15
An interdisciplinary overview of levee setback benefits: Supporting spatial planning and implementation of riverine nature‐based solutions	15
Women in limnology: From a historical perspective to a present‐day evaluation	15
Hydrochemical and isotopic evaluation of groundwater and river water in the transboundary Silala River watershed	15
Are sponge cities the solution to China's growing urban flooding problems?	15
Review on model development techniques for dam break flood wave propagation	14
Issue Information	14
Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement	14
Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 2	14
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Exploring drought‐to‐flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review	13
Flood diversions and bypasses: Benefits and challenges	13
Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis in hydrological modeling	13
Using water walks as a research method to gather data in water‐related social research	13
Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	13

Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence	13
Natural Flood Risk Management in Tropical Southeast Asia: Prospects in the Biodiverse Archipelagic Nation of the Philippines	13
Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability of Soil and Groundwater Near Estuaries	12
Forecasting lake‐/sea‐effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges	12
Critical review of household water treatment in Southeast Asian countries	12
Streambed migration frequency drives ecology and biogeochemistry across spatial scales	12
The Needs, Challenges, and Priorities for Advancing Global Flood Research	12
Issue Information	11
Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks: A Meta‐Ecosystem Conceptual Model	11
Sustainability impacts of sediments on the estuary, ports, and fishing communities of Cartagena Bay, Colombian Caribbean	11
Gender identities, water insecurity, and risk: Re‐theorizing the connections for a gender‐inclusive toolkit for water insecurity research	11
How should water affordability be measured in the United States? A critical review	11
A conceptual framework for gender and climate mainstreaming to mitigate water inaccessibility in ruralsub‐SaharanAfrica	11
Cover Image, Volume 8, Issue 6	10
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Climate and hydrological seasonal effects on household water insecurity: A systematic review	10
A Practitioner‐Informed Decision Tree for Selecting Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom Control and Mitigation Techniques	10
Climate stress testing for water systems: Review and guide for applications	10
Identifying and Approaching Barriers to Environmental Flow Implementation Using Social–Ecological Systems Thinking	10
Proactive river corridor definition: Recommendations for a process‐based width optimization approach illustrated in the context of the coastal Pacific Northwest	10
The geomorphological and ecological functioning of the Silala River	10
Reframing Natural in Flood Management	10
Anishinaabek responsibilities and relationships are demonstrated in N'bi (Water) Declarations	10
Advances in quantifying microbial contamination in potable water: Potential of fluorescence‐based sensor technology	10
Recent advancements of landslide hydrology	10
Warding off freshwater salinization: Do current criteria measure up?	10
Issue Information	10
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Macroplastics in Rivers: A Review	10
Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells	9
Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance	9
Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact‐based forecasting of droughts	9
How resilient are waterways of the Asian Himalayas? Finding adaptive measures for future sustainability	9
Reimagining hydropower in the United States	9
A primer on stream temperature processes	9
Interacting effects of climate change and invasions by alien plant species on the morphodynamics of temperate rivers	8
The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well‐being	8
The role of rewilding in mitigating hydrological extremes: State of the evidence	8
Disparate Groundwater Responses to Wildfire	8
A review of video‐based rainfall measurement methods	8
The role of water in environmental migration	8
Issue Information	8
Linking emerging contaminants to production and consumption practices	8
Guiding Aquatic Reptile (Chelonian and Crocodylian) Conservation in the Face of Growing Light Pollution: Lessons From Experience	8
Introduction to the Silala River and its hydrology	8
Social barriers to open (water) data	8
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State‐of‐the‐art review of leak diagnostic experiments: Toward a smart water network	7
Hydrosocial Territories Research: An Overview	7
Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West	7
Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review	7
Water throughout the green energy transition: Hydrosocial dimensions of coal, natural gas, and lithium	7
Social practice theory and household water demand: A review of literature and research evidence	7
A Review of Processes and Models for the Export of Microplastics From Terrestrial to Aquatic Systems	7
Review of water scarcity assessments: Highlights of Mexico's water situation	7
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Transport of persistent organic pollutants: Another effect of microplastic pollution?	6
Issue Information	6
Artificial DNA in hydrology	6
Understanding synergies and tradeoffs between forests, water, and climate change	6
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Amphibitic stoneflies (Plecoptera) are integrators of ecosystem processes in alluvial aquifers of gravel‐bed river floodplains	6
Reviving Europe's rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free‐flowing rivers	5
Interactions between sediment processes and ecosystem responses in the Green Bay of Lake Michigan	5
Opportunities and challenges for precipitation forcing data in post‐wildfire hydrologic modeling applications	5
Participatory approaches in water research: A review	5
Making a vicious cycle virtuous: A research and policy agenda for advancing the water security of unregulated users in the Southwestern U.S.	5
People need freshwater biodiversity	5